Posted on 12/29/2013 1:31:07 PM PST by fso301
In balmy 2C weather the ice has softened in places, posing a hazard for wanderers, but the Akademik Shokalskiy is still stuck
Sunday began as the days now always begin on the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, with a briefing for the passengers on the status of the rescue effort.
The crew and expedition leaders had been poring over weather and ice forecasts and speaking with maritime rescue agencies and other ships' captains since the early morning. At 10am they decided it was time to warn the rest of the passengers to steel themselves for the extreme-case scenario if the icebreakers could not get us out within the next 48 hours: an air evacuation.
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Ponder this: the networks will carry four months of personal stories from these “heros” when they finally do get back.
I wonder how many of those passengers thought that this would be a “once in a lifetime” trip because the ice would soon be gone due to global warming.
I wonder if they’re getting daily briefings from Hollywood science experts on how this is normal as the planet undergoes its death throes due to global climate change.
If we didn’t have any coal plants this would never happen.
Pray America is Waking Up
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
Global Warming.
And thereby publicize a cooling planet for four months?! Methinks not.
Nice opening line.
Alok (if that is correct) can write.
I urge all my fellow freepers to go out and start your cars trucks lawm mowers and such and let them idle I think we could help melt the ice and save those fellow humans
Not just because of climate change. For a few decades now, extreme guided tours have become the norm. There haven't been many problems, so people forget that there are real dangers, that their guides can't take care of everything.
This is a wakeup call. Sometimes, "extreme" means extreme.
I would very much enjoy a boat trip to the Antarctic.
Given that it is currently colder here where I am at in lovely Wisconsin, the temperature would feel right at home.
Getting airlifted out would be interesting as well. I’ve never been in a helicopter.
A bunch of PC Scientists, traveling to the Antarctic Pole to prove global warming is melting all the ice, are stuck in the ice.
Ironic.
What have the 750 print stories about these hammerheads been doing, exactly? True, the print stories leave out key, inconvenient facts and so will the endless interviews.
Blame Bush
Inconvenient stories are put on Ignore faster than other news events...
What an adventure, I wish them the best but think of the stories they will have to tell.
True but when plopping down $25K each, I don't think these are the kind of stories they were expecting to tell upon their return.
abandon ship, send in the copters, it’ll take several trips but they need to get out of there before they become peoplesickles
Hollywood? The eco-nuts are there with the passengers telling them those things I bet.
The passengers should make them walk the plank... heh
if you go take some dogs and a sled
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